Chris Dodd

Christopher John "Chris" Dodd (27 May 1944-) was a member of the US House of Representatives (D-CN 2) from 3 January 1975 to 3 January 1981 (succeeding Robert H. Steele and preceding Sam Gejdenson) and a US Senator from Connecticut from 3 January 1981 to 3 January 2011 (succeeding Abraham Ribicoff and preceding Richard Blumenthal).

Biography
Christopher John Dodd was born in Willimantic, Connecticut in 1944, the son of US Senator Thomas J. Dodd. He served in the Peace Corps in the Dominican Republic from 1966 to 1968 and served in the US Army Reserve from 1969 to 1975, and he ultimately became a lawyer in 1972. In 1974, he was one of the many Democrats elected to the US House of Representatives in the liberal boom which followed the Watergate scandal, and he went on to serve in the US Senate from 1981 to 2001. He launched a failed presidential bid in 2008, but, on 21 July 2010, his Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act was signed into law to increase consumer protection in the wake of the Great Recession. He retired in 2010, and he served as Chairman and CEO of the MPAA from 2011 to 2017.